I aspire to John Merriman levels of lecturing where I can make my point and then just start pointing at a map to give examples off the top of my head.

Here, Mithras can be identified in the center by his Persian dress, a cap and trousers.

2nd century Roman relief of the Iranian God Mithras sacrificing a bull to fertilize the Earth with its blood. The cult of Mithras was adopted by Roman soldiers along the Eastern frontier, who appreciated his associations with victory over death.

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With Zohran, a Twelver Shia, facing Eric Adams, a Turkish proxy, I think we can consider the NYC mayoral race the final phase of the Ottoman-Safavid conflict.

Hoping that Zohran Mamdani introduces neo-platonic sacred kingship to NYC.

RT @ContingentWest: The fruits of the NYC social democracy were public housing, subsidization of healthcare, free college, and affordable m….

The fruits of the NYC social democracy were public housing, subsidization of healthcare, free college, and affordable mass transit. The fiscal crisis and rise of high finance disrupted this vision, but Zohran's victory shows us that many seek a revival of it.

Finally, most NYC workers remained renters, meaning they fought for various housing protections and public housing and didn't engage in suburbanization or tax revolts (cough cough Detroit and Chicago). This also meant that the NYC working class was less racially polarized.

Furthermore, the smallness of NYC enterprises meant that workers didn't consign their allegiances to specific unions but instead mingled and forged a broader working class identity.

20th century NYC was home to many small-scale manufacturing enterprises instead of larger industrial giants. These small enterprises couldn't offer much in the way of corporate benefits, which prompted unions to press for universal city-wide services.

One book that I think is essential to understanding Zohran's victory is Working Class New York by Joshua Freeman. Freeman describes how the unique conditions of NYC workers allowed them to forge a municipal social democracy that flew in the face of broader trends in the country

Definitely, and Zohran adhered to the classic formula of winning by making inroads into more recent immigrant groups who had been excluded from patronage structures. In Zohran's case, that was Asian-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and transplants.

Might join DSA now.

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RT @ContingentWest: Many ghazis were revered as saints by Christians. One of the Baba's disciples became St. Charalambos. When Sultan Abdul….

Many ghazis were revered as saints by Christians. One of the Baba's disciples became St. Charalambos. When Sultan Abdul Hamid II sent agents to investigate the town of Sögut in the late 19th century, he found Christians venerating the grave of the Ottoman ancestor Ertuğrul Ghazi.

The ghazi (holy warrior) ethos of the Turko-Byzantine frontier was one that transcended religious boundaries. Baba Illyas, the leader of a Turkmen frontier state, was revered by Jews, Christians, and Mongols. Upon his death, they mourned him, crying out, "Where is our sheikh?"